Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

FOugnkeepsie, N. l.. 10 oeoh . ui' '''eo
of sixteen miles.
Seventy five years ago the hrst
tomatoes grown in this country were
cultivated as strange and snowy
horticultural curiosity in Salem, Mass
-Gun-fints are still manufactured
in England to considerable extent.
These gun-fints are exported to Africa
and disposed Of to the natives OF the
interior by barter.
a rattlesnake was captured in the
eastern part of Southington making oil
with farmers hen. 1t crawled over
a stone wall with the hen III its mouth.
-Connecticut Farmer.
The duck has been SO greatly
changed by domest'cation that natural
lists can easily determine by the bones
of the wing whether the bird was wild
or a tame one.-N E. Farmer.
1t seems to have recently been dis
covered that three-ffths of the horses
are bow-legged or pigeon-toed. In
New York fifty-three differently shaped
horse-shoes are required to fit the hoofs
of the horses.
Another level-headed druggist sold
harmless colored water for vitrol in
Paris the other day to an excited
woman, who Immediately proceeded to
fling the innocuous liquid in the faces
of two persons whom she desired to
disfgurc.
Talon Dauzy, with limbs tied, and
great beads of sweat upon his face,
being about to be hanged, at Camden
S. c., kissed his baby and spoke these
old words, unutterably human and
touching, to his children: mind
mamma.
-"Wny is it, Cicero. that You don't
visit Miss Spilkins now?" "Wall, We
see, boss, her mother thought our
family wasn't quite 'ristocratic 'nufF;
her father is a whitewash artist and
mine is only barber. ''-BurIington
Free Press.
"A li.tle girl, whose mother had
been affecting some Of the English
forms OF speech, astonished a visitor
recently, who had just made use of the
expression half after six, by asking in
Il most Interested way: "Oh, tell me!
when did you begin to say half afterP"
N. r. Independent.
For the benefit of those who do not
know the meaning Of a sneeze the fol-
lowing is quoted from a pamphlet re-
Gently issued by a German scientist.
He saws q sneeze is but "an affection OF
the respiratory nervous center, the af-
ferent impulse of which is conveyed by
the trigeminal nerve fibers.
Two bells cast in 1775 at Messilla,
Mexico, for the Catholic Church, are to
90 to Milwaukee to be smelted. IL is
believed there is at least one thou
sand dollars in precious metals which
became fused in when the laborers at
the original casting dropped jewelry
into the molten mass to propitiate
patron saints.
Achieving Observation-Disclosures
-''Young Miliken seems to have made
quite name for himself" Wife
..You surprise me. | never thought
that he would amount to any thing. "
Husband-"Oh, yes, he can hold an
eyeglass on his eye longer than any
member of the club. ."-Draic' TrGr-
eierS' Magazine.
Last Monday, while out fishing, J.
r. Hair, of Tampa, Fla, caught large
catfish. He held it up near his right
4 L l,ol- vrhn1, tbo tiSt,
gave a sudden jump and fnned him
right over his heart, the fin entering
about three-quarters of an inch and
breaking of even with the flesh. MIR.
Hair took out his pocket-knife and cut
the fin out, and at last accounts was
doing well.
Mrs. George H. Walsh, Of Grand
Forks, ID. T., wife of Hon. George III.
Walsh, the well-known politician, in
her husbands absence from home thi;
season has run the farm. hired all the
help, put in and harvested eight hun
dred acres Of grain of splendid yield
has paid the entire expense Of tht
work, including seed, etc, from the
proceeds Of the sale Of chickens, eggs
butter and vegetables from the farm
"A certain professional man in Or
lando, Fla, has scheme which nigh
be adopted by every one who pays hi
street tax. When collector called OF
him yesterday with bill he was re
quested to stand still a moment, and il
the meantime an assistant Of the afore
said p. m. had succeeded in taking
photograph of the pair in the act Q
paying the bill and giving a receipt
! The scheme works to perfection and b
is never troubled second time.
S. v. French, the New York Git
politician, made queer catch in Mon
tauk bay the other day. What b
hauied up was a long black fish tha
weighed over four pounds. The pecr
liarity about it was that its heal wa
fat and corrugated like the sole Of
tennis shoe. 1t proved to be spec
/ men Of the "remora.n BY means {
this fiat head it ddbs itself against tn